[Infographic] The Digital Classroom

Technology is changing many aspects of society, and one area that it’s been really making a huge impact is in education.

The classroom of my era consisted only of traditional teaching aids such as a chalkboard and pieces of colorful chalkboard, flip charts and, if we’re lucky, an overhead projector with which to project images off ‘transparencies’. Oh, and we used the good ol’ paper textbooks too.

These days, kids have it so much better. Digital textbooks will be the next frontier in classroom education – this infographic shows us how eBooks and eBook reading devices will evolve the classroom of the future:

This infographic was first posted on OnlineUniversities.com.

Daniel Goh is the founder and chief editor of Young | Upstarts, as well as an F&B entrepreneur. Daniel has a background in public relations, and is interested in issues in entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, public relations and the online space. He can be reached at daniel [at] youngupstarts [dot] com.